Ornamental chain



April zo 192s.

J. ANTHCNYv 'ORNAMENTAL CHAIN Fild March 28l 1925 svn' l.

Patented Apr. 20, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ANTHONY, F ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

ORNAMENTAL CHAIN.

To all fr0/1,0m it l71mg/ concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Chains, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ornamental chains of wire fabric and used customarily for armlets, wristlets, bracelets, girdles, belts, gariers, and the like.

This type of chain being formed by wires disposed transversely of the length of the chain .makes the. wire ends readily susceptible to bending and exposure after some use, so as to scratch the flesh of the wearer or abi-aid the adjacent fabric.

One essential object of my invention is to avoid these defects and to strengthen, guard, and render smooth the lateral edges of the chain strip. Another essential object is to effect this end in a chain having an expansible body. A final object is inexpensiveness of construction.

To the enumerated ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my chain,

Fig. 2 is a section of the same. on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is another form of the same.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

My chain is constituted as follows. A series of transversely disposed, originally helical, wire members have interengaging helices, and the whole wire fabric is then flattened. A chain having a body thus described comprises a transverse wire strand or member 1l provided with open longitudinal loops 12 successively oppositely directed. The adjacent transverse strand 14 has the alternate loops 15 of its longitudinal series interengaging alternate loops 12 of the series formed on the member 11, producing longitudinal series of openings 17 throughout the body. The free ends of the wires 11 and 14 overlap each other longitudinally and constitute the edges of the chain.

Each edge constitutes a core 2O around which is wound a helical wire 22 whose helices pass through some. one of the series of openings 17. These wires form a guard or protection for the edges of the chain. In Fig. 1 these guard wires are dead and nonresilient and retain the interengaging loops 12 and v15 in fixed positions relatively to each other, and render the. body of the chain practically nonexpansible.

h In Fig. 3, which is the preferred construction, the corresponding helical marginal wires 28 are resilient so that the interengaging loops 12 and 15, which are slidable relatively to each other, may separate or approach each other as the chain is expanded or contracted.

I claim 1. In a chain of the character described, a body comprising transversely disposed parallel wires provided with interengaging loops forming longitudinal series of openings and having their free ends disposed to constitute marginal cores extending lengthwise of the body, and helical wires sur rounding the cores comprising helices eX- tending through the openings.

2. As an improved article of manufacture a chain comprising a body portion formed of transversely disposed parallel wires with alternating oppositely disposed loops interengaged with each other' in parallel relation and flattened, and having alternately opposed elongated openings and loops, and a spring at each edge of the flattened member having helices passed through the openings in the edges of the flattened member and constituting a guard for the sides of the chain.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature.

JOI-IN ANTHONY. 

